Still no word from Education Ministry on Sattaur, Hubbard deaths

Safraz Sattaur

Four months have passed since Anna Catherina teenager Safraz Sattaur hanged himself and the Ministry of Education is still to comment on whether the probation officer involved in the incident was attached to the ministry.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand had said that the ongoing investigation was yet to find evidence to implicate ministry welfare officers, though relatives and neighbours of the teen have insisted that the person who visited and reportedly threatened the teen on the day he took his own life, was from her ministry.

Sattaur’s grandmother, Rahale Sattaur, told Stabroek News yesterday that she was angry that the welfare officer was still seemingly employed at the ministry, while adding that no one has made contact with the family about the progress of the